This page will give you all the information you need to translate Freeplane into your own language.

Freeplane translation (ie translation of the Graphical User Interface -GUI- )

These are all the strings displayed in Freeplane, especially in menus and dialogs.

Instructions

Download Popeye translation tool
Get the latest translation file from Freeplane translation table both for the reference language (EN recommended) and for your language
In Popeye : create a project and do the translation, see this Flash tutorial
Check the completeness of your translation file using TransCheck
You can now add the new translation on your current Freeplane installation for test : in your Freeplane installation directory, create subfolders resources/translations and put your translation file there. Run Freeplane and check your translation
When translation is ok : go to the tracker (requires Sourceforge log-in) and upload your file (the Project should be set to Translations). The development team will add your translation to the next release.

You're done!

Why are translation strings ending with "[translate me]" ?: As long as a key is missing in a translation Freeplane automatically uses "<English text> [translate me]" as translation. Translators should search and translate these strings in priority and then remove "[translate me]".
Why is there sometimes space before values ?: spaces before values are ignored, don't care.
Why is there & character before some values (sometimes "in" the words) ?: the ampersand (&) is used to mark keys in the menu (i.e. open the menu, press the key/letter to activate the menu entry) - while translating, you need to make sure that each letter is only used once per menu.
Some values begins by <html> with no </html> at the end ?: Java accepts unclosed tags - don't care.
Some key are not used / displayed in the software: you should stay aligned with the English version to be on the safe side, but if keys are not used, it's a bug you can report.

Your translation is truncated: If your translation is truncated when displayed, it may contains a ' character (e.g. Freeplane displays "Copier l" instead of "Copier l'identifiant"), you may simply enter the ' character twice (ie "Copier l"identifiant") as translation where " is twice the character '.

This is the map mind you get when you press the <F1> key or use the menu point Help → Documentation.

Download the latest version of freeplane.mm and FP_MenuReference.mm (or an already existing versions in your language) from the Bazaar repository.
- The current link is http://freeplane.bzr.sourceforge.net/bzr/freeplane/freeplane_program/release_branches/1_0_x/files/head%3A/freeplane/resources/doc/ (but check if it's not an outdated link)
Visit pages http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/doc/freeplane_all_languages.html and http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/doc/FP_MenuReference_all_languages.html to see how the documentation is automaticly translated by Google Translate.
Using the latest development version of Freeplane, just create a map in your language (or complete the one already existing).
- As it's almost impossible to track differences between maps and ensure an exact one to one relationship between the languages, we don't expect this from translators.
- To track changes of freeplane.mm filters can be useful: Open the file in normal mindmap mode (not via F1) and apply a "Date filter" with the modification time set to the last time you have edited the translated map.
- Just make sure that the map is consistent with the current version of Freeplane, as complete as possible and helpful to users.
Go to the tracker (requires Sourceforge log-in) and upload your map (the Project should be set to Translations).

TBD

TBD (the current version doesn't allow for localization). Hint for later: http://jhelpdev.sourceforge.net/